The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Ethereal Sky,...And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun, from day to day,Does his Creator's Pow'r display,And publishes to every LandThe Work of an Almighty Hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted b...y audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator's lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ......And while with silent lifting mind I've trodThe high, untrespassed sanctity of space,Put out my hand and touched the face of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In pursuit of an educational program to suit the bright and the not so bright, we have watered down a rigid training for the elite... until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses.... We must evolve an adjustable curriculum which does not sacrifice the superior student to the drones at a period in our history when we need highly trained people in ever increasing numbers to solve the vast and complex problems which destiny has placed upon our shoulders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who inv...ested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »